WHAT DO SATAN'S DISGUISES LOOK LIKE?
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. What Do Satan’s Disguises Look Like?
a) Paul is warning the church at Corinth that “anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face” (2 Corinthians 11:20) are false apostles who are “masquerading as apostles of Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:14).
b) How are these “angels of light” enslaving Christians today? It could be by legalism or by telling them that they must keep certain holy days, or that they must tithe (some require up to 30% plus), or that they must…(the list can be quite long).
c) How can Christians be exploited today? Any minister, pastor, priest, or preacher that “exploits” can do so through begging or asking for “seeds of faith” in return for a promise of God’s blessing them. They can require church members to donate time, money, talent or even personal resources for the gospel’s sake but the truth is they are exploiting believers for their own personal welfare.
d) How can these false apostles “put on airs” in front of Christians today? They can appear to be highly spiritual, claim a special gift from God to read believer’s minds and point them out in the church, they can prophesy about what a believer has coming or what is about to happen. They can claim that they received a special revelation from God or had a vision or they can claim special revealed knowledge sent to them from God.
e) The truth is that any revelation that comes from outside of the Bible is extra biblical and therefore is unreliable for we have all the revelation we need today from God and it is in His Word, the Bible.
f) Finally, how can these disguised ministers “slap you in the face” today? They can do so by humiliating you in front of others, belittling you in person, making you feel inconsequential compared to themselves, and some times actually slapping people in the face trying to “cast out an evil spirit.”
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1. What Do Satan’s Disguises Look Like?a) Paul is warning the church at Corinth that “anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face” (2 Corinthians 11:20) are false apostles who are “masquerading as apostles of Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:14).
b) How are these “angels of light” enslaving Christians today? It could be by legalism or by telling them that they must keep certain holy days, or that they must tithe (some require up to 30% plus), or that they must…(the list can be quite long).
c) How can Christians be exploited today? Any minister, pastor, priest, or preacher that “exploits” can do so through begging or asking for “seeds of faith” in return for a promise of God’s blessing them. They can require church members to donate time, money, talent or even personal resources for the gospel’s sake but the truth is they are exploiting believers for their own personal welfare.
d) How can these false apostles “put on airs” in front of Christians today? They can appear to be highly spiritual, claim a special gift from God to read believer’s minds and point them out in the church, they can prophesy about what a believer has coming or what is about to happen. They can claim that they received a special revelation from God or had a vision or they can claim special revealed knowledge sent to them from God.
e) The truth is that any revelation that comes from outside of the Bible is extra biblical and therefore is unreliable for we have all the revelation we need today from God and it is in His Word, the Bible.
f) Finally, how can these disguised ministers “slap you in the face” today? They can do so by humiliating you in front of others, belittling you in person, making you feel inconsequential compared to themselves, and some times actually slapping people in the face trying to “cast out an evil spirit.”
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